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The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God. --- John Stott The church can live faithfully in post-Christian America because its life never depended upon America being Christian. Its life depends upon Christ, and Christ has not surrend...

Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Grace and peace to you in our Lord Jesus Christ. Tuesday morning at 8:45 a.m., Bishop Edgar submitted a letter to Bishop Julian Dobbs, Dean of the Province, indicating voluntary submission to discipline in the matter of the Porter-Gaud chapel dedication. On Sunday evening, Bishop Edgar was notified that a Presentment had been submitted to the Prov...

COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD www.VirtueOnline.org September 1, 2026 The Global Anglican Council — the conciliar body GAFCON raised up as an alternative to the Anglican Consultative Council, the Instruments of Communion, and the Archbishop of Canterbury — announced this week that the headquarters of the reordered Global Anglican Communion will be established in Abuja, Nigeri...

Dame Sarah Mullally's forte is thermometers not theology The good ship Anglican Communion, going down by the head — women’s ordination the last thing above water. COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I August 31, 2026 Just when you thought the Global South might come to the rescue of the Anglican Communion over the ordination of women, it all suddenly collaps...

COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I August 28, 2026 It is now apparent to the world’s roughly 85 million Anglicans that the Anglican Communion is irretrievably broken, and that short of repentance it will never be repaired. There is no glossing over it, no parsing it, no pretending otherwise, no hope that if we talk long enough and lovingly enough about un...